The Models of Pickpocket (Breaking Silence)

Director: Babette Mangolte

2003 / 89min / DCP

More than 40 years after the release of Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket, Mangolte tracked down the three surviving principal cast members—including leading “models” Marika Green and Martin LaSalle, found living in Mexico City—to produce this revealing inquiry into the mystery of Bresson’s life and precise working methodology, with each subject a wellspring of revealing reminiscences and keen observations on their late director’s quest to create a cinema of total emotional honesty shorn of all theatrical effect.